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<h1>Syndication Manager</h1>


<p align="right" class="auto" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">-- Draft 4.5.3</p><p align="left" class="auto" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">To&nbsp;syndicate your site is&nbsp;to make the Content Items from your Web&nbsp;site which are assigned to the FrontPage Component&nbsp; available for&nbsp;syndication via&nbsp;a&nbsp;distributable file. <br /></p><p align="left" class="auto" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The Syndicae module (mod_rssfeed) provides an easy way to display the necessary links on your site for users to get your feed.<br /></p><p align="left" class="auto" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Syndication Manager </span>lets choose all settings for your News feed.<br /></p><h2>Toolbar Icons</h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">Save: </span>Saves settings and returns to Control Panel.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Close: </span>Cancels editing and returns to Control Panel.<br /><h2>Parameters</h2><p align="left" class="auto" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>Cache:</strong> Yes&nbsp;or&nbsp;No? Choose the&nbsp;'Yes' radio button to&nbsp;create and&nbsp;display a&nbsp;new News Feed dependant on&nbsp;the value set&nbsp;in&nbsp;the Cache Time field. Choose the&nbsp;'No' radio button to&nbsp;display a&nbsp;new News Feed each time an&nbsp;item is&nbsp;added to&nbsp;the FrontPage Component and&nbsp;each time the&nbsp;News Feed is&nbsp;accessed by&nbsp;another server. <br /><strong><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Warning:</span></strong> Setting Cache to&nbsp;'No' will cause your News Feed to&nbsp;be checked every time someone visits any&nbsp;site where your News Feed is&nbsp;syndicated. This can&nbsp;potentially cause excessive bandwidth usage as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;extreme draw on&nbsp;your server resources.<br /><br /><strong>Cache Time</strong>: This is&nbsp;the number of&nbsp;seconds before your site's database is&nbsp;checked for&nbsp;updates. The&nbsp;default in&nbsp;Joomla! is&nbsp;3600 seconds, or&nbsp;60 minutes. After this time has&nbsp;elapsed, the&nbsp;News Feed will refresh itself from your database thus displaying any&nbsp;new items you&nbsp;have published&nbsp; through the FrontPage Component to&nbsp;your News Feed.<br />---------------------------------------<br /></p><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" name="p310-5"></a><p align="left" class="auto" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>#Items:</strong> Type the&nbsp;number of&nbsp;items you&nbsp;would like to&nbsp;syndicate and&nbsp;display in&nbsp;your News Feed. <strong></strong><br /><br /><strong>Title:</strong> Type the&nbsp;title you&nbsp;wish to&nbsp;display above your articles within your syndicated News Feed when it&nbsp;is displayed on&nbsp;those sites and&nbsp;pages which syndicate your News Feed. The title will appear as a link to your site.<br /><br /><strong>Description:</strong> Type a&nbsp;brief statement to&nbsp;describe your News Feed. If none is entered, it will default to &quot;Joomla! site syndication&quot;.</p><p align="left" class="auto" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">---------------------------------------<br /><strong>Image:</strong> Select an&nbsp;image from the&nbsp;<span class="nobr">drop-down</span> menu to&nbsp;be included in&nbsp;your News Feed.&nbsp; If you do not have an image, you can upload one via the Media Manager.<br /><br /><strong>Image Alt:</strong> Type the&nbsp;text for&nbsp;the “alt” tag&nbsp;to&nbsp;compliment the&nbsp;image you've selected for&nbsp;inclusion in&nbsp;the News Feed via&nbsp;the Image <span class="nobr">drop-down</span> menu.</p><p align="left" class="auto" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">-----------------------------------------<br /><strong>Limit Text:</strong> Yes&nbsp;or&nbsp;No? Choose the&nbsp;'Yes' radio button if&nbsp;you wish to&nbsp;limit the&nbsp;Text Length field. Choose the&nbsp;'No' radio button to&nbsp;force the&nbsp;value in&nbsp;the Text Length field to&nbsp;be ignored, thus displaying the&nbsp;entire contents of&nbsp;each item.<a name="p310-11"></a></p><p align="left" class="auto" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>Text Length:</strong> Type the&nbsp;number of&nbsp;words to&nbsp;display per&nbsp;News Feed item. <br /><strong style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;">NOTE:</strong><span style="font-style: italic;"> The&nbsp;Limit Text radio button must be&nbsp;set to&nbsp;'YES' to&nbsp;activate this function.</span><br />--------------------------------------<br /></p><p align="left" class="auto" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Order: Order that the items —as listed in the FrontPage Manager— will be displayed. <br /></p><ul><li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">'Default': Arranges items according to the order set in the FrontPage Manager.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">'FrontPage Ordering': Same as above.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">'Oldest first': Arranges items in chronological order, with the oldest items first.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">'Most recent first': Arranges items in chronological order, with the newest items first.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">'Title Alphabetical': Arranges items by title in alphabetical order.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">'Title Reverse-Alphabetical': Arranges items in reverse-alphabetical order.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">'Author Alphabetical': Arranges items by author in alphabetical order.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">'Author Reverse-Alphabetical': Arranges items by author in reverse alphabetical order.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">'Most Hits': Arranges items according to the number of hits, with the items with the most hits first.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">'Least Hits': Arranges items according to the number of hits, with the items with the least hits first.</span></li></ul><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br />Live Bookmarks: Firefox functionnality moved to Global Configuration.<br /></span>

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